- \n
- William Langewiesche’s\u00a0Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight<\/a><\/em>. Saw it at a library book sale, and thought I’d give it a try. I’ve always enjoyed Langewiesche’s writing in\u00a0Vanity Fair\u00a0<\/em>and other longform venues, and my father was a navigator in the US Air Force, so I figured I ought to be at least somewhat interested in the topic. A quick but satisfying read.<\/li>\n
- Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law<\/em><\/a>. The best nonfiction book I’ve read all year. Outstanding look at\u00a0de jure<\/em> residential segregation in the United States.<\/li>\n
- Simon Reid-Henry’s The Political Origins of Inequality<\/em><\/a>. A very important topic, but only occasionally interesting. Glad to have an intelligent geographer’s perspective, but little pleasure in his prose or points of real, curious interest for me.<\/li>\n
- David Lagercrantz’ I Am Zlatan<\/em><\/a>. Fun, light reading–I read most of it on airplanes\/in airports while traveling this summer.<\/li>\n
- Ann Leckie’s Ancillary trilogy: Ancillary Justice<\/em>, Ancillary Sword<\/em>, and Ancillary Mercy<\/em>, read on recommendation from our friends Josh and Jeff. I liked the first book best, but all three were fast, engrossing sci-fi stories. Read them mainly at night after putting our son to bed.<\/li>\n
- Brandon Sanderson’s\u00a0Elantris<\/em>. Read so I could have something to talk with my friend Dave about. Didn’t hate it, but didn’t really\u00a0like\u00a0<\/em>it, either. Better than mindless reading, but only just.<\/li>\n
- Patrick O\u2019Brien’s\u00a0Master & Commander<\/em><\/a>. I actually really liked my first exposure to the Aubrey & Maturin series. My friend Dave’s been recommending these books to me for years, and I never took the plunge until I went to Chicago for a conference and had 5 hours in a hotel room next to the airport and a shopping mall. Reading was the best way I could have spent my time, and so I read\u00a0Master & Commander<\/em>. I’m glad I did. At times, all the 19th century references and nautical terminology were like reading an untranslated work or a work in dialect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Longform Journalism<\/h2>\n
I read so much<\/em> longform over the summer on Pocket (reverting back to bad habits). A fair amount was about sports and politics, which I won’t share here, but I also read pretty widely outside of those two ‘guilty pleasure’ interests. It’s hard to pick just a few of the best pieces, so here’s a longer list of what I’d recommend from the last three months of my reading:<\/p>\n
On Technology:<\/h3>\n
- \n
- Ian Bogost writing for The Atlantic<\/em> on useless apps<\/a>\u00a0and how we’re already living inside of a computer<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- A Wired<\/em> feature on Tristan Harris’ work to lessen the intrusive impact of technology on everyday life.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Ed Finn writing for\u00a0Aeon<\/em> about algorithms and the roles of human creativity and machine learning<\/a><\/li>\n
- Jean Twenge’s\u00a0piece in\u00a0The Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>smartphone usage and mental health impacts on teenagers<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Michelle Dean’s article about the founding of Snopes<\/a> and the messy divorce that has caused them to revise their own founding story.<\/li>\n
- Emma Hogan writing for\u00a01843\u00a0<\/em>about\u00a0the surge in interest in micro-dosing with acid<\/a> to achieve productivity gains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
On Higher Education:<\/h3>\n
- \n
- Tom Farrey’s article about for the Undefeated<\/em> about the disappearance of first-generation college attendees among D-1 basketball scholarship recipients<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Todd Gitlin writing in The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>on the long history of free speech challenges<\/a> on college campuses.<\/li>\n
- Three reporters’ data-driven story about affirmative action<\/a> and the persistent (and growing) gap in college attendance at elite schools for African-Americans and Hispanics.<\/li>\n
- John Warner on what we know about teaching writing effectively<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Kyle Siler on future opportunities for scholarly publishing<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Ashley Powers’ feature in\u00a0The California Sunday Review\u00a0<\/em>on the costs of college attendance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
On Race, Gender, and Social Issues:<\/h3>\n
- \n
- Larissa MacFarquhar writing for\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0about family court<\/a> and its role in deciding when children should be taken from their parents.<\/li>\n
- Paul Kiel and Hannah Fresques writing for ProPublica about racial disparities and types of bankruptcy filings<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Rebecca Solnit writing about feminism and occupying space<\/a> in Harper’s <\/em>and for\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>imagining what life would have been like had she been born male<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Albert Samaha writing for BuzzFeed News about why police officers file reports which contradict video footage of their actions<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- The letter The Economist wished Larry Page had written<\/a> in response to James Damore’s infamous memo.<\/li>\n
- Rachel Monroe’s article for The New Republic\u00a0<\/em>about real estate speculation<\/a> and its impact on urban blight in America’s cities.<\/li>\n
- Mina Kimes on Kim Se-hyeon, eSports and sexism<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Danah Boyd writing on her own blog about on empathy, privilege and perception<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Ben Schmidt writing on his own blog about the usage of ‘public’ vs. ‘government’<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Sarah Sentilles writing in\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>about how we ought to respond to images of human suffering<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Mark Boyle writing for\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>about herbalism and rejecting modern industrial medicine<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Atul Gawande writing in\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>about health care and insurance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
On Literature\/History:<\/h3>\n
- \n
- Ron Rosenbaum writing in\u00a0Tablet\u00a0<\/em>on Elie Wiesel and Jewish anger<\/a>. I also liked Paul Berman’s essay for\u00a0Tablet<\/em> on Philip Levine and Spanish anarchism<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Sam Anderson’s feature in\u00a0The NYT Magazine\u00a0<\/em>on John McPhee<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Martin Puchner writing for\u00a0Aeon\u00a0<\/em>about Goethe and the invention of ‘world literature’<\/a><\/li>\n
- Jeremy Adelman writing for Aeon\u00a0<\/em>about nationalism and the rise and decline of ‘world history’<\/a><\/li>\n
- Jacob Soll’s article for\u00a0Politico<\/em> on\u00a0the long, sordid history of ‘fake news’.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Miscellaneous:<\/h3>\n
- \n
- Joshua Hunt writing for The California Sunday Magazine\u00a0<\/em>on the investigation of counterfeited goods in China<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Evan Osnos’\u00a0New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>feature on the risks of catastrophic conflict with North Korea<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Natalie Angier writing for the NYT\u00a0<\/em>about the praying mantis<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Alice Gregory writing for\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>on what it’s like to accidentally kill another person<\/a> (often while driving).<\/li>\n
- Will Boast writing about kokpar, a horse named ‘Lazer’ and Kazakhstan<\/a> for\u00a0VQR<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- Julian Baggini writing for\u00a0TLS\u00a0<\/em>about ‘truth.’<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Book\/Film Reviews:<\/h3>\n
- \n
- Bradley Babendir’s review of\u00a0Evan Kindley’s\u00a0Poet-Critics and the Administrators of Culture<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Benjamin Schwarz’ grumpy review of\u00a0Elizabeth Currid-Halkett’s\u00a0The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class<\/em> for\u00a0The American Conservative<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Robert Christgau writing a Terry Eagleton omnibus review<\/a> for Barnes & Noble(!)<\/li>\n
- Carlos Fraenkel’s review of Peter Adamson’s\u00a0History of Philosophy without Any Gaps, volume 3: Philosophy in the Islamic World<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Oliver Burkeman writing in\u00a0The Guardian<\/em> about ‘the new optimists<\/a>‘<\/li>\n
- Robert Minto’s review of Philippe Desan’s biography of\u00a0Montaigne<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Geoffrey O’Brien’s review of the new Otis Redding biography<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Santiago Zabala writing for the LARB about Richard Rorty<\/a>, 10 years after his death.<\/li>\n
- Marina Warner’s review for the LRB<\/em> of\u00a0Thomas Laqueur’s\u00a0The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Sarah Cowan writing in the Paris Review<\/em> about American designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Sean Cooper writing in\u00a0Tablet\u00a0<\/em>about the great American documentarian Frederick Wiseman<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Writing by friends:<\/h3>\n
- \n
- Spencer Gardner’s excellent 3-part series for Strong Towns on zoning: part 1<\/a>, part 2<\/a>, part 3<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Colin Gillis writing for\u00a0Avidly<\/em> about living in a smaller body after weight loss<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Kyle Johnson’s podcast series about Olivier Messiaen, birdsong and classical music<\/a> for Edge Effects.<\/li>\n
- Julia Dauer writing about names and St. Jude<\/a> for Entropy.<\/em><\/li>\n
- Tom Schaub with the best story about Thomas Pynchon<\/a>\u00a0I’ve ever heard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Featured image by Steve Halama<\/a>
![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-inject\/images\/cc.png?ssl=1\")
<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I haven’t kept up as regularly with these monthly updates as I had hoped, but I did keep reading through the summer. I stayed really plugged into my dissertation reading and research, which really cut down my leisure reading, but I still managed to get through several books that struck my fancy in some way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"It's a bit overdue, but in case you're curious, here's the best of what I read this summer:","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[16,444,17,18,8],"class_list":["post-6240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading","tag-books","tag-higher-education","tag-literature","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Steel Wagstaff","author_link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/author\/steel\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd6z5D-1CE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6155,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-january-and-february-2017-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6240,"position":0},"title":"My January and February 2017 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"March 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Books My leisure 'book' reading continued to slow over the past couple months, and I haven't had as much time for this blog, so I'm going to roll my January and February reading recap into a single post. Here's what I read for pleasure (i.e. not for work or for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Convergence, Long Room, Trinity College","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14153958438_d3b3869add_k.jpg?fit=1100%2C717&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14153958438_d3b3869add_k.jpg?fit=1100%2C717&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14153958438_d3b3869add_k.jpg?fit=1100%2C717&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14153958438_d3b3869add_k.jpg?fit=1100%2C717&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14153958438_d3b3869add_k.jpg?fit=1100%2C717&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4979,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-october-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6240,"position":1},"title":"My October 2016 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"November 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Books I wrote last month that I was on a big reading kick, and that surge of devouring books has continued in full force this month. Outside of the reading I've been doing for my dissertation and my work, here's a list of the books I read for pleasure\/self-education in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "What I'm Reading"","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"People reading the newspaper on a bench in the street after the American moon landing July 21, 1969","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6298,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-october-and-november-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6240,"position":2},"title":"My October and November Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"November 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In my last reading update, I mentioned that I had read the first book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. Since then, apart from reading for my dissertation, that's pretty much\u00a0all\u00a0I've read. I just finished\u00a0The Yellow Admiral, which means that I've read 18 of the 21 books (one left unfinished at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bollard, Photos by Clark","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35332790134_ebb6938e70_k.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35332790134_ebb6938e70_k.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35332790134_ebb6938e70_k.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35332790134_ebb6938e70_k.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35332790134_ebb6938e70_k.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6198,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-june-2017-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6240,"position":3},"title":"My June 2017 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"July 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Books The good news? I read a lot for my dissertation in June 2017. Even better news? Much of it was pleasurable (at least for me)--a lot of \"Objectivist\" poetry, biographical material on Williams and Zukofsky, and histories of late 1920s-early 1930s little magazines. I won't list any of it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "What I'm Reading"","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"boy reading in garden","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8515538001_4a12feab52_k.jpg?fit=1022%2C688&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8515538001_4a12feab52_k.jpg?fit=1022%2C688&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8515538001_4a12feab52_k.jpg?fit=1022%2C688&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8515538001_4a12feab52_k.jpg?fit=1022%2C688&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6117,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-december-2016-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6240,"position":4},"title":"My December 2016 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"January 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Books As the year limped its way to a close, I tried to keep up my torrid reading pace. I slowed down considerably from my October\/November frenzy, and spent a lot more of my free time reading and writing on dissertation related topics (hi, Objectivist poets!) but still managed to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "What I'm Reading"","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6310,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/2017-my-year-in-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6240,"position":5},"title":"2017: My Year in Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"January 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the first year that I've really made an effort to keep track of my leisure reading. One of my goals for the year was to read less internet-based news and more books, and I think I was more or less successful, though some months were better for reading\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8703997248_274eea3496_k-e1515010915522.jpg?fit=1196%2C735&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8703997248_274eea3496_k-e1515010915522.jpg?fit=1196%2C735&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8703997248_274eea3496_k-e1515010915522.jpg?fit=1196%2C735&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8703997248_274eea3496_k-e1515010915522.jpg?fit=1196%2C735&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8703997248_274eea3496_k-e1515010915522.jpg?fit=1196%2C735&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Colin Gillis writing for\u00a0Avidly<\/em> about living in a smaller body after weight loss<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Benjamin Schwarz’ grumpy review of\u00a0Elizabeth Currid-Halkett’s\u00a0The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class<\/em> for\u00a0The American Conservative<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Evan Osnos’\u00a0New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>feature on the risks of catastrophic conflict with North Korea<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Sam Anderson’s feature in\u00a0The NYT Magazine\u00a0<\/em>on John McPhee<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Paul Kiel and Hannah Fresques writing for ProPublica about racial disparities and types of bankruptcy filings<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Todd Gitlin writing in The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>on the long history of free speech challenges<\/a> on college campuses.<\/li>\n
- A Wired<\/em> feature on Tristan Harris’ work to lessen the intrusive impact of technology on everyday life.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law<\/em><\/a>. The best nonfiction book I’ve read all year. Outstanding look at\u00a0de jure<\/em> residential segregation in the United States.<\/li>\n